Ballentine's Law Dictionary

The running of a vessel into another vessel, collision.

To allow.

An allocation.

An allowance upon an account in the English exchequer.

A writ by which an accountant secured an allowance due him from the excheqeur.

An old writ used in outlawry proceedings.

A writ issued in the process of outlawry.

Same as Allocutus.

The court’s question of a prisoner after verdict of guilty as to any statement he may desire to make before sentence is passed. See 27 Mo. 324.

Free; not held subordinate; opposed to feudal.

An allodial estate; one not held under a superior.

A paper attached to a negotiable instrument to provide space for further indorsements. See 141 HI. 461, 31 N. E. 17.

Division; distribution.

A seaman assignment of future wages.

Alluvion.

Gradual washing up of sand and earth so as to increase the quantity of land owned by a riparian proprietor. See 22 Am. St. Rep. 195.

Alluvion from the sea.

Donations to relieve the poor.

Ellmeasure; a duty on woolen cloth.

An officer who measured woolen cloth and collected the duties thereon.

An alder grove.

The holder of an allodium.

See Allodium .

See Allodium .

Abbreviation of Alios; others.

High treason.

The profits of a priest.

Highway.

Interchangeably.

A petition in the alternative will not be heard.

A change in a document by which its legal effect is altered. See 148 111. 349, 35 N. E. 1120.

A deception of one person does not furnish a cause of action to another.

Permitting a choice between one course of action and another.

One commanding a party to do or cease doing something or show cause why he has not. See 71 Conn. 381, 42 Atl. 82.

Alternately.

Not to injure another.

One of two.

An easement restraining the height of one’s buildings.

An easement by which the height of one’s buildings was unlimited.

High and low.

The high seas.

High.

To him and to his heirs forever.

The ordinary bed of a stream.

Consolidation of corporations is a merger, a union, or amalgamation, by which the stock of the two is made one, their property and franchises combined into one, their powers become

A compilation of marine laws of countries surrounding the Mediterranean, made in the 11th century.

A vassal; a client.

An attorney who received pay from both sides; a bribed juror.

An ambiguous plea should be resolved against the pleader of it.

In doubtful cases it is always presumed in favor of the crown.

Ambiguity.

An ambiguity is resolved against the stipulator.

Latent ambiguity.

Patent ambiguity.

A latent ambiguity of words may be supplied by proof, because ambiguity arising from a fact may be removed by proof of the fact. See 100 Mass. 60.

No proof will remove a patent ambiguity of words. See 21 Wend. (N. Y.) 651.

Double meaning; uncertainty.

An ambiguous contract should be interpreted against the vendor.

An ambiguous plea ought to be interpreted against the pleader of it.

A boundary line.

A will is revocable until the last moment of life.

American Decisions.

Betterments.

Liable to punishment; subject to jurisdiction.

A humiliating disgrace imposed as a penalty to make amends.

A change in an existing statute made by a legislative body. See 46 Ala. 340. Correction of a mistake or error occurring in a judicial proceeding. See 3 Bl. Comm. 406-410.

Satisfaction for an injury.

A person with no mind.

From bed and board.

A punishment imposed by the court upon an unsuccessful plaintiff for making a false claim. See 3 Bl. Comm. 376.

See Amercement .

One brought by mutual consent of the parties, usually on agreed facts, for the court’s decision on the law. See 49 U. S. 251, 12 L. Ed. 1067.

(Louisiana) An arbitrator whose decision is binding.

A friend.

A friend of the court; one who volunteers assistance to the court on a matter of law. See 46 Am. St. Rep. 45.

A United States case in 1839 wherein negroes who had been kidnaped and enslaved in Africa, mutinied and were held free and not pirates. See 2 L. Ed. (IT. S.) 826.

A paternal aunt.

A paternal great-aunt.

A paternal great-great-aunt.

A cousin.

To be deprived of the right of coming into court.

To lose the privilege of a court; to lose the right to testify; to become outlawed.

Governmental condonation. .

The alienation of lands in mortmain.

To alien lands in mortmain.

Removal; expulsion.

Of property for which stock is issued under statute authorizing issue for property to the amount of the value thereof, is the actual or fairly estimated value. See 42 L. R. A. 621.

That you remove your hands; an order made for the restoration of lands seized by the crown.

A sort of temporary patent to protect a claimant of land pending issue of title papers. See 1 Tex. 790.

To defer.

A deferring of judgment pending further consideration.

American Reports.

American State Reports.

A confidential vassal.

Friend.

Year.

The absence of government.

An ecclesiastical punishment by which a person is shut out from all relation with the church.

From birth.

Compound interest.